Mobilizable narrow host range plasmids as natural suicide vectors enabling horizontal gene transfer among distantly related bacterial species

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 326, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 76-82

  Smorawinska, Maria ^a   Szuplewska, Magdalena ^b   Zaleski, Piotr ^a   Wawrzyniak, Paweł ^a   Maj, Anna ^b   Plucienniczak, Andrzej ^a   Bartosik, Dariusz ^b  

^a INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Klebsiella pneumoniae; Mobilization for conjugal transfer; Narrow host range plasmids; pIGMS31; pIGMS32; pIGRK

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; PLASMID VECTOR;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE VECTOR; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; SUICIDE VECTOR; TRANSPOSON;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA HELICASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HOST SPECIFICITY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 83055176403     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02432.x     Document Type: Article

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